Sitting through an entire evening of jazz trumpet stylings seems a daunting prospect - will it sound like Miles Davis at his best, or will it just resemble a flock of seagulls fighting over a sandwich? Happily, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, performing in Vicar Street as part of the ESB Jazz Series, tempered the squall of his instrument with tough, industrial electronica, thundering tribal drums, twisted DJ breaks and shredded samples.

Molvaer's 1997 album, Khmer, became an underground hit, its mix of jazz, electro and afro rhythms gaining him a following among discerning clubbers and neo-beatniks.

Taking his cue from Davis's Bitches Brew and Kraftwerk's Man Machine, but also nodding to David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, Molvaer makes an eerie, disjointed hybrid of dance and jazz which echoes the urban angst of the 21st century. Th is strange brew is perfectly captured in Recoloured, the remix album which came out earlier this year.

This was Molvaer's first Irish appearance, and the end of his current European tour. The venue was crowded with Dublin's hip young guns, and DJ Donal Dineen warmed them up with his usual eclectic setlist.

Molvaer's backing band featured guitarist Eivi nd Aarset, drummer Rune Arnesen, bassist Audun Erlien, DJ Strangefruit on decks and the excellently-named Darknorse on samples.

Strangefruit and Darknorse opened the proceedings with blocks of concrete sound and concave effects, after which Arnesen ambushed the crowd with gracefully tumbling drumming.

Molvaer gave the band plenty of space to build up strength and intensity. By the end of the night the crowd was dancing hypnotically to the junglist beats and wailing wall of sound, and Europe's supremacy in the realm of new jazz was assured.